OnTimeStats

Historical on-time performance

Phoenix to Cleveland

1,737 miData through May 2026Source: US DOT · BTS

Flights on PHX–CLE arrive on time 72% of the time over the last 12 months.

On-time rate72%arrived within 15 min
p90 delay45 min1 in 10 flights is worse (tail risk)
Cancelled0.8%of scheduled flights

based on 638 flights over the last 12 months. On-time means arriving within 15 minutes (BTS standard).

By airline

How each carrier compares

Not enough comparable data to name a most-on-time carrier — low-data carriers aren't ranked.

  • American Airlines
    On-time79%
    Medianon time
    p9050 min
    Cancel0.5%
    Flights185
  • Frontier Airlines
    On-time72%
    Medianon time
    p9040 min
    Cancel2.6%
    Flights152
  • Southwest Airlines
    On-time68%
    Medianon time
    p9045 min
    Cancel0.0%
    Flights301

Why flights run late

Delay causes

  • Airline41%
  • Weather1%
  • Air traffic (NAS)13%
  • Late aircraft45%
  • Security0%

Most delay minutes here are attributed to Late aircraft.

When flights don't go

Why flights were cancelled

  • Airline60%
  • Weather40%
  • Air traffic (NAS)0%
  • Security0%

Most cancellations here are attributed to Airline. Shares are among 5 cancellations with a reported cause (BTS reports causes from June 2003).

Over time

On-time trend

By season

On-time rate by month

When to fly

Best time to fly PHX → CLE

All airlines · rolling 36 months (2023-06 .. 2026-05).

Best time of day

Mornings are the most reliable time of day to fly this route — 83% on time.

  • Mornings83% on time · p90 25 min · 467 flights
  • Middays76% on time · p90 40 min · 816 flights
  • Afternoons75% on time · p90 45 min · 1,079 flights
  • Evenings71% on time · p90 80 min · 249 flights

Best day of week

On-time rates are fairly even by day on this route — ranging from 72% to 84% on time.

  • Tuesdays84% on time · p90 35 min · 322 flights
  • Wednesdays80% on time · p90 40 min · 339 flights
  • Saturdays79% on time · p90 30 min · 497 flights
  • Thursdays76% on time · p90 50 min · 362 flights
  • Mondays74% on time · p90 60 min · 380 flights
  • Sundays73% on time · p90 40 min · 418 flights
  • Fridays72% on time · p90 55 min · 379 flights

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Methodology

A flight is on time when it arrives within 15 minutes of schedule — the US DOT / BTS standard. Median and p90(the “1-in-10 bad day”) are read from the full arrival-delay distribution, never averaged across periods.

Figures cover a carrier’s own BTS-coded flights. Cells below ~200 flights are flagged as limited data. All numbers are pre-computed from public BTS On-Time Performance data.